About this lot
Description
§ § Hock-Aun Teh (Malaysian-Scottish 1950-)
A letter from home
signed with monogram (centre right); artist's label to the reverse
acrylic on board
81 x 113cm
Footnote:
A self-described “kampung boy” at heart, Malaysian born artist, Hock-Aun Teh, has gained international acclaim for his vigorous and dynamic abstract compositions, which have been exhibited throughout Asia and Europe and are held in public collections including The National Visual Arts Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, National Art Museum of China, Beijing and Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.
Born to Chinese parents in, Sungei Gedong, a remote Malaysian village, in 1950, Teh spent his early childhood training in traditional Chinese ink painting and calligraphy, before being accepted to study at The Glasgow School of Art in 1970. The first person of Asian descent to graduate from Glasgow’s Drawing and Painting Department, Teh’s work has been praised for its anomalous fusion of the delicacy and lyricism of traditional calligraphic lines with the gestural hyper-masculinity associated with abstract expressionism.
Condition report:
The frame is quite loose. The surface with a light layer of dust. A few fibre inclusions beneath the paint layer. Thr right hand side with a small abrasion and subsequent paint loss and the lower edge with a larger abrasion (approx 10cm) with paint loss.Overall there is a scattering of very minor surface accretions, but overall in good condition. See additional images.
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